The Stardrake Effect by Scott King

Author:Scott King [King, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 11

Scrut Soup

The self healing polymer chew toy, which Kayla had meant to be an oblong shape, like a worldship, was a bit more phallic than Kayla had intended, but Barnabus loved it. Even better was that the rate at which it healed was faster than Barnabus could chew, so after an intense session the toy repaired itself before Barnabus was ready to go at it again. The toy distracted him so well that Kayla felt comfortable putting the I.A.S. Starfinder memorial plaque back onto her dresser. She gave it a week, constantly watching it, but Barnabus didn’t go for it once.

Kayla had planned to take Barnabus to the Quad to run and wear him down, so that she could grade the midterm papers for the classes she was teaching, but he was being so good and well behaved sleeping by her bed that she decided to leave him alone. A sleeping Barnabus was a good Barnabus.

Pinging the N2, Kayla checked her to-do list. She was up to date on her thesis. At this point it was all out of her hands as she waited to hear back from the proposals she had sent out. The powers that be in the I.A.S. had to approve time for her research to be conducted on a ship and a ship had to agree to the research. If Kayla had picked a thesis that didn’t require being in space near a wyrmhole, she could of course be doing her own experiments and research. Honestly, it was bad planning on her part, and if she could do things over she would go back and change her thesis. But at this point it was easier to stick with what she had started than to change things up.

Bringing up her classroom shared folder, she skimmed the names of the files in it. There should have been one hundred and thirty-six copies of the midterm papers, but more than twenty were missing. Unfortunately, that was on them. She could do her best to teach, but if the students didn’t show up there was nothing she could do about it.

A knock sounded on her bedroom door.

“Yo.” Gynx waved from the hallway. Ems hair was styled differently, the tips frosted blue. It looked good. “What’re you doing?”

“Was about to grade midterms.”

Barnabus stretched and rolled over, giving Gynx the saddest face in the world, as if trying to tell Gynx that Kayla never ever gave him love or played with him.

Gynx massaged Barnabus’s outstretched legs. What Kayla found most interesting was that Gynx didn’t seem to realize em was doing it. It was as if Barnabus had trained Gynx without ems knowing. “I am so lucky that I am not getting my PhD and that my masters is terminal and doesn’t require silly things like a full thesis or teaching.”

“Yes, because your life of training to be a pilot is so much more glamourous.” Kayla paused for effect. “Wasn’t it during finals last semester you threw up during your test

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